INTERCHURCH  WORLD  MOVEMENT  OF  NORTH  AMERICA 

WORLD  SURVEY 
CONFERENCE 

ATLANTIC  CITY 
JANUARY  '7  to  10,  1920 

PRELIMINARY 

Statement  and  Budget  for 
American  Religious  Education 


PREPARED  BY 

SURVEY  DEPARTMENT 

AMERICAN  RELIGIOUS  EDUCATION  DIVISION 


This  Survey  statement 
should  be  read  in  the  light 
of  the  fact  that  it  is  preliminary 
only,  and  will  be  revised  and 
enlarged  as  a  result  of  the  dis¬ 
cussions  and  recommendations 
of  the  World  Survey  Conference. 

The  entire  Survey  as  revised 
will  early  be  brought  together  in 
two  volumes,  American  and 
Foreign,  to  form  the  basis  of  the 
financial  campaign  to  follow. 

The  “Statistical  Mirror*' will 
make  a  third  volume  dealing  with 
general  church,  missionary  and 
s  stewardship  data. 


INTERCHURCH  WORLD  MOVEMENT  OF  NORTH  AMERICA 


WORLD  SURVEY 
CONFERENCE 

ATLANTIC  CITY 
JANUARY  7  to  10,  1920 

PRELIMINARY 

Statement  and  Budget  for 
American  Religious  Education 


PREPARED  BY 

SURVEY  DEPARTMENT 

AMERICAN  RELIGIOUS  EDUCATION  DIVISION 


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RELIGIOUS  EDUCATION  3 


A  Call  to  the  Colors 

The  United  States  of  America  has  been  invaded  by 
three  enemy  armies  which  threaten  our  national 
existence.  First,  there  is  within  our  borders  an 
army  of  five  and  one-half  million  illiterates  above  ten  years 
of  age;  second,  there  is  an  army  of  fifty-eight  million  people 
who  are  not  identified  with  any  church,  Jewish,  Catholic 
or  Protestant;  third,  there  is  an  army  of  twenty-seven 
million  Protestant  children  and  youth,  under  twenty-five 
years  of  age,  who  are  not  enrolled  in  any  Sunday  school  or 
other  institution  for  religious  training. 

If  these  three  armies  should  form  in  double  column,  three 
feet  apart  they  would  reach  one  and  one-third  times  round 
the  globe  at  the  equator.  If  they  should  march  in  review 
before  the  president  of  the  United  States,  starting  on  the 
day  of  his  inauguration,  moving  double  column  at  the  rate 
of  twenty-five  miles  a  day,  it  would  take  the  three  armies 
three  years  and  eight  months  to  pass  the  president. 

These  three  armies  constitute  a  triple  alliance  which 
threatens  the  life  of  our  democracy.  Patriotism  demands 
that  every  loyal  American  should  rush  to  arms  and  wage 
three  great  campaigns — a  campaign  of  Americanization,  a 
campaign  of  adult  evangelism,  and  a  campaign  for  the 
spiritual  nurture  of  childhood.  The  pages  which  follow  are 
a  call  to  the  colors. 


4 


RELIGIOUS  EDUCATION 


Intelligence  and  Righteousness 

Universal  Education  is  the  Only 

The  fundamental  elements  of  a  nation’s  strength  are  the  intelligence  and 
moral  insight  of  its  people.  The  machinery  with  which  a  democracy 
sets  each  new  generation  on  the  shoulders  of  the  race  is  the  public  school 
system.  Through  the  public  schools  the  state  secures  an  effective,  socially- 
minded,  homogeneous  citizenship.  Its  curriculum,  besides  providing  for  indi¬ 
vidual  needs,  contains  common  elements  which  become  the  basis  of  the  like- 
mindedness  of  the  people  and  insure  united  and  collective  activity.  It  is  thus 
that  social  solidarity  is  secured  in  a  democracy. 

The  world  war  revealed  many  defects  in  our  educational  system.  It  has 
clearly  shown  the  importance  of  rural  education,  the  necessity  for  a  complete 
program  of  physical  and  health  education,  the  need  of  radical  measures  to 
reduce  adult  illiteracy,  the  necessity  for  the  preparation  and  supply  of  competent 
teachers  and  the  equalizing  of  educational  opportunities.  The  Smith-Towner 
Bill,  now  pending  before  Congress,  is  the 
nation’s  educational  program  for  the  recon¬ 
struction  period.  This  bill  creates  a  depart¬ 
ment  of  education  in  our  national  government 
and  places  a  secretary  of  education  in  the 
President’s  cabinet.  For  the  first  time  in  our 
nation’s  life  it  provides  a  national  educational 
policy.  This  is  done  without  limiting  the 
initiative  and  self-government  of  states  and 
cities.  We  have  set  out  to  build  the  most 
effective  system  of  public  schools  which  the 
world  has  ever  seen.  These  schools  will  give 
us  a  people  physically  and  mentally  capable  of 
sustaining  a  socialized-industrial-democracy. 


'XT®  child  should  be 
JL^  damned  to  illiteracy 
because  he  chanced  to  be 
born  in  one  of  the  waste 
places  of  the  nation.” 


RELIGIOUS  EDUCATION 


5 


Must  Be  Co'Extensive 

Guarantee  of  Democratic  Government 


But  the  democratic  state  has  not  yet  established  the  machinery  which 
will  conserve  and  perpetuate  the  moral  and  spiritual  achievements  of 
the  race  ‘and  guarantee  that  the  citizenship  of  the  future  will  be 
dominated  by  the  highest  of  moral  and  spiritual  ideals. 

Democracy  must  learn  how  to  make  intelligence  and  righteousness  co-exten- 
sive.  A  new  piece  of  machinery  must  be  created  and  made  a  vital,  integral 
part  of  the  life  of  every  community.  This  new  piece  of  machinery  must  spiritual¬ 
ize  our  citizenship  just  as  the  public  school  makes  it  wise  and  efficient.  The 
nation  that  can  build  this  new  machinery  will  write  a  new  page  in  the  history 
of  democratic  government. 

The  task  of  religious  education  is  to  motivate  conduct  in  terms  of  a  religious 
ideal  of  life.  In  a  democracy  the  common  facts,  attitudes  and  ideals  which 
constitute  the  basis  of  collective  activity  must  be  surcharged  with  religious 

interpretation.  Spiritual  significance  and  God- 
consciousness  must  permeate  the  entire 
content  of  the  secular  curriculum.  The 
national  public  school  system  must  be  supple¬ 
mented  by  a  unified  program  of  religious  edu¬ 
cation  which  will  guarantee  the  spiritual 
homogeneity  of  our  democracy.  Unless  such 
a  program  of  religious  education  can  be  created 
there  is  great  danger  that  a  system  of  public 
schools  will  become  nationalistic  and  material¬ 
istic  in  theory  and  practise  and  the  direction 
of  social  development  will  be  determined  by  the 
secular  state  rather  than  by  the  spiritual  forces 
represented  by  the  church. 


'A 


RELIGIOUS  education 
should  be  the  heritage 
of  every  child.  Spiritual  illit¬ 
eracy  is  the  greatest  peril  of 
organized  society.” 


RELIGIOUS  EDUCATION:  The  Nation* s  Light 


7 


A  Statesmanlike  Program  of  Religious 

Education 


IF  THE  millions  of  unchurched  people  re¬ 
vealed  by  the  chart  on  the  opposite  page  are 
to  be  adequately  trained  in  the  principles  of  the 
Christian  religion,  and  if  in  addition  to  this 
responsibility  this  nation  is  to  furnish  a  leader¬ 
ship  which  will  carry  Christianity  to  the  utter¬ 
most  parts  of  the  earth,  steps  must  be  taken  at 
once  to  build  a  statesmanlike  program  of  relig¬ 
ious  education  for  the  American  people.  Such 
a  program  would  involve  the  following  items: 

1.  The  securing  and  training  of  an  army  of 
religious  teachers,  both  professional  and  volun¬ 
teer.  This  would  mean: 

a.  The  establishment  of  research  and  graduate 
schools  in  religious  education. 

b.  The  creation  of  departments  of  religious 
education  in  church  colleges. 

c.  The  founding  of  a  system  of  teacher-training 
schools  and  institutes  for  the  training  of  the 
volunteer  workers. 

d.  The  creation  of  associations  for  the  self¬ 
development  of  both  volunteer  and  professional 
workers. 


2.  The  creation  of  a  curriculum  for  all  grades 
of  church  schools. 

3.  The  establishment  of  week-day  and  vaca¬ 
tion  schools  of  religion. 

4.  The  strengthening  and  vitalizing  of  the 
educational  program  of  each  local  church. 

5.  The  establishment  of  parent-training 
courses  in  the  interest  of  religious  education 
in  the  home. 

6.  The  creation  of  community  programs  of 
religious  education  through  which  the  church 
will  use  music,  art,  drama  and  recreation  as 
agencies  for  the  spiritualizing  of  the  ideals  of 
the  whole  community. 

7.  The  creation  of  a  system  of  organization 
and  support  which  will  be  adequate  to  sustain 
a  school  system  involving  thousands  of  teach¬ 
ers  and  millions  of  students  and  costing  billions 
of  dollars. 

8.  The  creation  of  a  system  of  supervision  and 
control  which  will  preserve  denominational  and 
local  autonomy  and  still  secure  essential  unity 
of  program  and  policy  for  the  entire  nation. 


WHERE  58  MILLIONS  UNCHURCHED 
PROTESTANT  AMERICANS  RESIDE 


ALABAMA 

ARIZONA 

ARKANSAS 

CALIFORNIA 

COLORADO 

CONNECTICUT 

DELAWARE 

D.  C. 

FLORIDA 

GEORGIA 

IDAHO 

ILLINOIS 

INDIANA 


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IOWA 

KANSAS 

KENTUCKY 

LOUISIANA 

MAINE 

MARYLAND 


MASSACHUSETTS 

MICHIGAN 

MINNESOTA 

MISSISSIPPI 

MISSOURI 

MONTANA 

NEBRASKA 

NEVADA 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE 
NEW  JERSEY 
NEW  MEXICO 
NEW  YORK 
N.  CAROLINA 
N.  DAKOTA 
OHIO 

OKLAHOMA 

OREGON 

PENNSYLVANIA 

RHODE  ISLAND 

S.  CAROLINA 

S.  DAKOTA 

TENNESSEE 

TEXAS 

UTAH 

VERMONT 

VIRGINIA 

WASHINGTON 

W.  VIRGINIA 

WISCONSIN 

WYOMING 


Totals;  Catholics  16,788,214  Jews  3,388,951  Other  Non-Prot,  739,709 
Protestants  24,354,216  Not  members  of  any  church  58,368,241 


CATHOLIC 


JEWISH 


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OTHER  NON 


PROTESTANT 


PROTESTANT 

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NOT  MEMBERS 


OF  ANY  CHURCH 

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Vital  Spots  in  the  Educational  Program 

of  the  Church 


TWENTY-SIX  MILLION 
CHILDREN 

WENTY-SIX  million  children  and  youth 
growing  up  without  any  definite,  syste¬ 
matic  training  in  religion  constitutes  the  great¬ 
est  peril  in  our  national  life. 

For  the  secular  education  of  the  childhood  of 
America  the  nation  proposes  an  annual  budget 
of  $1,241,000,000.  For  the  spiritual  nurture  of 
this  same  army  of  future  American  citizens 
the  church  should  provide  a  budget  which  will 
guarantee  that  intelligence  and  godliness  shall 
be  universal  and  coextensive. 

INDIVIDUAL  ACCOUNTING 

HE  church  cannot  teach  the  people 
unless  it  reaches  them.  Fifty-eight 
million  unreached  people  means  fifty-eight 
million  untaught  people.  Twenty-six  million 
children  and  youth  not  in  Sunday  school,  as 
shown  on  the  map  on  the  opposite  page,  means 
twenty-six  million  potential  spiritual  illiterates. 
The  church  must  find  a  way  to  reach  the  chil¬ 
dren  and  to  account  for  them  systematically 
from  infancy  to  maturity. 

LEADERSHIP 

NTRAINED,  voluntary  leadership  has 
been  both  the  strength  and  the  weak¬ 
ness  of  our  Sunday  schools.  Untrained  leader¬ 
ship  is  apt  to  be  inefficient  and  dangerous. 
Good  intentions  cannot  justify  bad  practise. 

We  must  retain  our  army  of  consecrated  volun¬ 
teer  teachers  and  officers  but  we  must  provide 
for  them  two  essential  things: 

1.  Training. — A  system  of  training  that  will 
reach  and  actually  help  the  average  voluntary 
worker  is  absolutely  basic  in  any  program  for 
the  improvement  of  religious  education. 

2.  Supervision. — Trained  teachers  need  careful 
supervision.  Untrained  teachers  must  be  much 


more  carefully  supervised.  It  is  a  sound  prin¬ 
ciple  that  the  less  training  the  worker  has,  the 
more  direction  he  needs. 

Here  is  the  weakest  spot  in  the  educational 
program  of  the  church.  The  church  has  not 
provided  trained  supervisors  for  its  army  of 
untrained,  volunteer  workers. 

The  public  school  has  one  supervisor  to  every 
82  teachers;  the  church  school  has  one  super¬ 
visor  to  every  2,716  teachers. 

The  program  of  the  future  should  provide  for 
highly  trained  directors  of  religious  education 
in  the  local  church  and  city,  district,  state 
and  national  superintendents  and  inspectors 
who  will  supervise,  direct  and  train  the  army 
of  volunteer  workers.  The  budget  of  the  church 
must  make  ample  provision  for  expert  super¬ 
vision. 

CURRICULUM 

HE  child,  the  teacher  and  the  curriculum 
are  the  three  most  important  factors  in  the 
school.  That  which  goes  into  the  curriculum 
eventually  finds  expression  in  conduct. 

The  building  of  the  body  of  common  matter 
that  shall  constitute  the  curriculum  of  our 
religious  schools  is  one  of  the  two  or  three  most 
pressing  problems  before  the  church  today. 
Trained  experts  with  ample  facilities  for  re¬ 
search  and  experimentation  must  be  provided 
for  this  purpose  in  large  numbers. 

TIME  AND  PARENTAL 
COOPERATION 

HE  church  school  must  be  given  adequate 
time  to  do  its  work.  Our  survey  shows 
that  the  average  Protestant  child  has  only  24 
hours  of  time  provided  annually  for  his  religious 
instruction,  while  the  Jewish  child  has  335 
hours  and  the  Catholic  child  has  200  hours. 

More  time  on  Sunday  and  during  the  week-days 


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should  be  provided  as  rapidly  as  curricula  and 
teachers  can  be  prepared. 

Vacation  and  week-day  schools  of  religion  are 
absolutely  necessary  for  the  adequate  religious 
training  of  the  American  people. 

The  training  of  parents  and  the  cooperation  of 
the  home  and  the  church  school  constitute  one 
of  the  next  important  steps  in  the  educational 
program  of  the  church. 


CHURCH  RESPONSIBILITY 

The  budget  of  the  church  school  should 
become  a  part  of  the  budget  of  the  church 
and  the  church  should  feel  itself  actually  respon¬ 
sible  for  the  educational  program  offered  to  its 
children.  Adequate  building,  equipment,  teach¬ 
ing  staff  and  parental  support  and  cooperation 
will  not  be  secured  until  the  church  regards 
its  school  as  one  of  the  chief  agencies  of  spirit¬ 
ualizing  the  life  of  the  community. 


AMERICA’S  GREATEST  PERIL 

THE  SPIRITUAL  NEGLECT  OF  CHILDHOOD 


IN  THE  UNITED  STATES  (UNDER  25  YRS) 
Children  m  the  U  S  -  -  -  -53 162,000 

Roman  Catholic— including  Ruthenian 

Cathol< .  8.676.000 

Jewish  -  ....  1,630,000 

AU  other  non  Protestant  Faiths  -  376,000 

Protestant .  11  682.0(X) 

Children  whose  Parents  are  not  reported 
as  helongtng  to  any  faith  |  nominally 
Protestant)  ..... 

Protestant  arvJ  Nominally  Protestant 
Children  not  u)  anv  r»iigious  school 
htdfxturch  Utrff  cf  North  America 


SPIRITUAL  ILLITERACY 
IS  THE  FORERUNNER  OF 
MORAL  BANKRUPTCY  AND 

natio'nal  decay 


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How  Christian  Education  Builds  the 

New  Social  Order 


The  world  is  in  the  midst  of  a  social 
unrest  seldom  if  ever  equaled  in  the 
history  of  the  human  race.  Man  has 
failed  to  preserve  the  peace  of  the  world. 
Organized  governments  are  being  overthrown 
and  untried  social  theories  are  demanding  a 
hearing  and  a  trial.  In  the  early  days  of  our 
republic  we  borrowed  European  educational 
institutions.  We  are  now  in  danger  of  bor¬ 
rowing  European  and  Oriental  theories  of 
society  which  will  overthrow  our  democratic 
institutions. 

The  crying  need  of  the  hour  is  for  social  sta¬ 
bility. 

* ‘Education  is  the  introduction  of  control 
into  experience.” 

“Religious  Education  is  the  introduction 
of  control  into  experience  in  terms  of  a 
great  religious  ideal.” 

“Christian  Education  is  the  introduction 
of  control  into  experience  in  terms  of 
Jesus  Christ.  It  is  the  task  of  Christian 


HOURS  OF  RELIGIOUS  INSTRUCTION 
PROVIDED  ANNUALLY 
BY  PROTESTANT,  JEWISH  AND 
CATHOLIC  CHURCHES 


THE  PROTESTANT  CHURCH  MUST  PROVIDE  MORE  TIME 
FOR  RELIGIOUS  INSTRUCTION 

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education  to  secure  individual  and  social  con¬ 
trol  in  terms  of  the  universal  mind  of  Christ, 
which  is  the  only  standard  of  conduct  ‘safe  for 
democracy.’  ” 

In  undertaking  the  task  of  building  a  program 
of  religious  education  which  will  undergird 
society  with  those  moral  and  religious  sanctions 
which  guarantee  the  stability  of  the  social 
order,  the  religious  educator  will  make  a  com¬ 
prehensive  study  of  present  conditions;  he  will 
analyze  and  evaluate  existing  methods  and 
processes. 

It  is  such  a  searching  diagnosis  which  the 
American  Religious  Education  Division  of  the 
Survey  Department  has  undertaken.  The  sur¬ 
vey  is  remedial  not  merely  diagnostic.  Upon 
its  results  it  will  be  possible  to  build  a  com¬ 
prehensive  program  of  religious  education. 
Never  before  in  American  history  have  so  many 
educational  experts  collaborated  on  a  single 
educational  task.  The  scope  of  the  survey  will 
be  shown  by  the  following  classification  of 
schedules  which  have  been  prepared  by  this 
division. 

I.  RELIGIOUS  EDUCATION 
IN  THE  LOCAL  CHURCH 

1.  General  information 

2.  Buildings  and  equipment 

3.  Individual  accounting 

4.  Curriculum 

5.  Organization  and  a,dministration 

6.  Teachers  and  officers 

7.  Supervision  of  teachers  and  officers 

8.  Finance 

9.  Religious  education  in  the  home. 

10.  Cooperation  of  the  Sunday  school  in  the 

religious  education  of  the  community 

11.  Educational  organizations  for  young 

people 

II.  RELIGIOUS  EDUCATION 
IN  THE  COMMUNITY 

1.  Community  organization  for  religious 
education 


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The  Nation's  Light:  RELIGIOUS  EDUCATION 


2.  Community  schools  of  religious  educa¬ 

tion 

3.  Week-day  religious  schools 

4.  Vacation  Bible  schools 

5.  Young  Men’s  Christian  Association — 

city  work 

6.  Young  Men’s  Christian  Association — 

rural  work 

7.  Young  Women’s  Christian  Association 

— city  work 

8.  Young  Women’s  Christian  Association 

— rural  work 

9.  Boy  Scouts 

10.  Girl  Scouts 

11.  Camp  Fire  Girls 

12.  Woodcraft  League 

13.  Religious  education  in  the  public 

schools 

14.  Community  census 

15.  Community  music 

16.  Community  art 

17.  Community  drama  and  pageantry 

18.  Playgrounds  and  recreation 

19.  Community  amusements 

20.  Juvenile  delinquency 

III.  RELIGIOUS  EDUCATION 
IN  THE  HOME 

1.  General  schedule  for  church  families 

2.  Special  schedule  for  non-church  families 

3.  Special  schedule  for  selected  families 

IV.  RELIGIOUS  EDUCATION 
IN  SPECIAL  FIELDS 

1.  Alaska 

2.  Hawaii 

3.  West  Indies 

V.  RELIGIOUS  EDUCATION 
OF  SPECIAL  GROUPS 

1.  Indian  schools 

2.  Juvenile  delinquents 

3.  State  and  federal  prisons  and  peniten¬ 

tiaries 

4.  Schools  for  blind  and  deaf 


RELIGIOUS  DISTRIBUTION  OF  CHILDREN 


UNDER  25  YEARS  OF  AGE 
IN  THE  UNITED  STATES 


THE  AMERICA  OF  TOMORROW  S 

JEW  OR  GENTILE?  CATHOLIC  OR  PROTESTANT  7 
ATHEISTIC  OR  RELIGIOUS? 

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5.  Schools  for  feeble-minded 

6.  Orphanages  and  children’s  homes  under 

state  or  municipal  support 

7.  Orphanages  and  institutions  of  correction 

under  church  auspices  (included  in 
schedules  of  Division  of  Hospitals  and 
Homes) 

VI.  GENERAL  SUPERVISORY  AND 
PROMOTION  AGENCIES 

1.  Denominational  Sunday  school  boards 

2.  Interdenominational  Sunday  school  asso¬ 

ciations 

3.  Denominational  young  people’s  boards. 

4.  Interdenominational  young  people’s 

boards 

5.  Independent  religious  education  associa¬ 

tions 

This  survey  is  undertaken  from  the  viewpoint 
of  the  church.  The  churches  are  active,  con¬ 
structive  agencies  creating  values  essential  to 
the  life  of  all  the  people.  As  community  build¬ 
ers  the  churches  are  seeking  through  careful 
surveys  the  facts  upon  which  to  base  their  pro¬ 
grams  of  parish  and  community  work. 


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Facts  Regarding  Religious  Education 

in  the  Home 


THE  OPPORTUNITY 
OF  THE  HOME 

EASURED  in  time  the  home. is  respon¬ 
sible  for  far  more  of  the  child’s  time 
than  are  all  other  educational  agencies  com¬ 
bined.  This  will  easily  appear  from  the  follow¬ 
ing  table: 


self-control — these  are  the  qualities  of  charac¬ 
ter  which  find  expression  in  crime. 

Stealing — the  continuance  of  a  baby’s  in¬ 
stinctive  practise  of  taking  what  it  wants. 

Drunkenness,  murder,  seduction — the  results  of 
self-indulgence  and  the  absence  of  training  in 
self-control. 


TIME  APPORTIONMENT 


Hours  in  week . 

Hours  in  school .  25 

Hours  in  church .  2 


Hours  under  home  control . 

Hours  spent  in  sleep . . 

Hours  at  disposal  of  home  as  com¬ 
pared  with  27  at  disposal  of  school 
and  church . 

ATTENTION  OF  TEACHER 
TO  INDIVIDUAL  CHILD 

40  children  to  room,  5  hours  a  day. 
5/40  or  3/^  hour  =l}/2  minutes  daily. 


Truancy — the  expression  of  hunger  for  adven- 


168 

ture  or  of  desire  to  escape  monotony  of  home 

or  school. 

27 

CAUSES  OF  CRIME 

141 

*No  work 

*Fast  women 

56 

*Need  of  money 

*Gambling 

*Bad  company 

*Boyish  pranks 

*Drink 

*Hunger 

*Brutal  fathers 

*Lack  of  home  training 

85 

*Domestic  troubles 

— parental  neglect 

*Bad  books  and 

Institutional  life  in 

cigarettes 

childhood 

Instruction  in  stealing  by  older  people 
Cocaine  and  other  drugs. 

*These  reflect  home  failure. 


The  average  for  individual  attention  is  often  not 
so  much  as  this  for  individual  treatment,  the 
time  being  used  in  mass  treatment.  There  are 


few  homes  which  cannot  give,  if  they  will, 
at  least  three  times  this  amount  of  individual 
attention. 

Hours  in  year .  8,736 

Hours  in  school .  750 

Hours  in  church .  75  825 

7,911 

Hours  spent  in  sleep .  2,980 

Hours  at  disposal  of  home  as  com¬ 
pared  with  825  at  disposal  of  school 
and  church .  4,931 


FAILURE  OF  HOME  AND 
SCHOOL  EDUCATION 

ORE  than  one-half  the  crimes  dealt  with 
in  the  courts  are  against  property,  the 
rest  against  the  person.  Thefts,  dishonesty, 
untruthfulness,  wilful  self-indulgence,  lack  of 


TYPES  OF  HOME  FAILURE 

T  IS  one  of  the  tragic  facts  that  the  ultimate 
failure  of  the  child  may  be  in  no  wise  the 
fault  of  the  child,  but  wholly  the  fault  of  the 
home.  Note  this  list  of  various  types  of  home 
failures: 

Parental  misunderstanding  of  child 
Fault-finding 

Lack  of  affection  or  failure  to  express  it 

Lack  of  confidential  relation  with  children 

Drunken  parents 

Separation  of  parents 

Loss  of  parent  by  death 

Street  play  and  loafing 

WHAT  HAPPENS  DURING 
UNOCCUPIED  TIME 

URING  one  week  in  one  city  there  were 
arrested  197  children  under  16  years  of 
age — 182  boys,  15  girls;  of  these,  75  were 


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Americans;  20  between  8  and  10  years  of  age; 
63  between  10  and  13  years  of  age;  114  between 
13  and  16  years  of  age.  This  week’s  number 
was  below  the  average.  It  is  estimated  that 
over  10,000  children  are  arrested  in  this  one 
American  city  during  the  year. 

COST  OF  THE  FAILURE  OF  HOME 
EDUCATION 

The  cost  of  one  year’s  crime  is  estimated  at  not 
less  than  $6,000,000,000. 

Yet  only  11  per  cent  of  the  crimes  reported 
are  punished. 

Nine-tenths  of  the  criminals  were  normal 
children. 

Nine-tenths  of  the  children  brought  into  court 
are  boys.  Two-thirds  of  criminals  were  home¬ 
less,  or  worse,  in  childhood. 

One-fourth  were  deprived  of  a  mother’s  care 
because  their  mothers  had  to  earn  a  living. 


WHY  THE  SCHOOL  AND  CHURCH  CAN¬ 
NOT  DO  THE  WORK  OF  THE  HOME 

Lack  of  time — (see  time  schedule  above). 

During  three  months  of  the  year  school  does 
nothing. 

Lack  of  experience — One-half  the  women 
teachers  and  one-third  the  men  teachers  are 
under  24  years  of  age. 

One-half  the  teachers  have  four  years’  teach¬ 
ing  experience  or  less;  one-fourth,  less  than 
one  year’s  experience. 

Three-fifths  of  women  and  two-fifths  of  men 
teachers  in  rural  schools  have  less  than  high 
school  education. 

More  than  three-fourths  of  all  teachers  are 
sons  and  daughters  of  small  tradesmen  and 
farmers  whose  incomes  average  less  than 
$800  a  year. 

Nearly  orte-fourth  of  the  teaching  profession 
must  be  recruited  afresh  each  year. 


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Denominational  Responsibility  for 
Religious  Education 


The  religious  education  of  all  the  children  of 
all  the  people  demands  of  all  the  churches 
an  adequate  denominational  organization  and 
program.  Unless  this  fundamental  need  of  relig¬ 
ious  education  be  met,  the  solution  of  the 
present  situation  is  hopeless.  The  following 
proposals  should  receive  most  careful  con¬ 
sideration: 

1.  Churches  must  be  associated  continuously 
in  a  noble  fellowship  of  service  if  the  great  need 
of  a  great  country  is  to  be  met. 

The  natural  and  immediate  fellowship  is  be¬ 
tween  churches  of  like  faith  and  order.  If  this 
fellowship  is  loyal  to  the  Head  of  the  church 
it  must  be  a  fellowship  of  service.  Facing  ne¬ 
glected  childhood  and  youth  the  denominational 
fellowship  must  add  to  all  other  service  a 
ministry  of  education  through  the  churches. 

2.  A  denominational  leadership  for  religious 
training  must  be  developed  adequate  for 
America’s  needs. 

Even  as  no  local  church  reaches  its  highest 
efficiency  when  it  shares  the  time  of  a  pastoral 
leader,  no  denomination  achieves  its  best  in 
religious  education  by  dividing  the  time  of  a 


missionary  or  publishing  or  evangelistic  leader. 
Each  denomination  needs  a  separated  and 
specialized  leadership,  competent  in  educa¬ 
tional  organization.  This  involves  a  staff  of 
officers,  headquarters  officers  and  their  equip¬ 
ment. 

3.  Denominational  leadership  of  religious  edu¬ 
cation  must  face  local  tasks  such  as: 

Planting  Sunday  schools  in  neglected  areas  as 
revealed  by  a  careful  survey. 

Winning  the  attendance  and  continuous  interest 
of  pupils  especially  through  the  perilous  years 
of  adolescence. 

Enlisting  and  training  church  school  officers 
and  teachers,  because  the  severest  limitations  of 
the  school  come  from  the  inadequate  number 
and  the  inefficiency  of  its  teachers  and  leaders. 

Giving  specialized  help  to  workers  in  the  grades, 
since  teachers  of  children,  of  boys  and  girls,  of 
young  people  and  of  adults  can  only  be  assisted 
effectively  by  experts  in  their  specialized  field. 

Building  and  remodeling  church  school  houses, 
for  even  a  good  teacher  may  be  defeated  by  the 


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VARIOUS  STUDIES  IN  A  TYPICAL  CITY 


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physical  conditions  which  an  ignorant  or  care¬ 
less  church  permits. 

Relating  evangelism  and  instruction  effectively 
to  safeguard  the  evangelical  bases  of  religious 
education. 

Providing  systematic  and  coordinated  mission¬ 
ary  education  in  order  to  give  every  pupil  infor¬ 
mation  and  the  passion  and  habit  of  service. 

Supplying  social  training  in  attitudes  and  ser¬ 
vice  as  one  of  the  tasks  of  religious  education 
made  plain  by  the  war  and  after. 

Creating  opportunities  for  additional  religious 
instruction  since  one  half  hour  a  week  is  utterly 
inadequate.  The  Daily  Vacation  Bible  School, 
week  day  religious  instruction  and  other  plans 
must  be  promoted. 

4.  Denominational  leadership  must  develop 
a  field  force  reaching  all  the  churches. 

It  is  not  sufficient  to  have  a  headquarters  force. 
Correspondence  and  the  printed  page  do  a  great 
deal  but  immediate,  personal  help  is  necessary. 
Trained  and  paid  workers  for  limited  territory 
must  be  supplied.  Rural  and  urban  work  call 
for  two  types  of  leaders  if  promotion  and  super¬ 
vision  are  to  be  properly  cared  for. 

5.  The  denomination  will  issue  its  own  lesson 
course  material. 

The  material  of  religious  education  must  grow 
out  of  the  experience  of  those  who  teach.  Each 
communion  of  believers  will  be  impelled  to 
express  its  faith  in  the  material  it  supplies  for 
the  training  of  children  and  youth.  There  is 
need  of  an  editorial  staff  trained  in  the  prin¬ 
ciples  and  practise  of  religious  education  and  of 
a  publishing  equipment  and  service. 

6.  Publicity  and  popular  promotion  material 
must  be  circulated. 


A  constituency  must  be  aroused  and  instructed. 
Interest  must  be  awakened  in  prospective 
workers.  Special  occasions  and  programs  must 
be  advertised. 

The  service  of  a  specialist  who  can  popularize 
educational  appals  is  in  demand  and  he  must 
be  given  a  fund  for  printing.  Each  department 
must  circulate  free  material  in  promoting  its 
work.  An  adequate  budget  item  must  be 
provided  for  this  need. 

7.  The  staff  of  workers  needs  further  training 
in  order  to  avoid  ruts  and  compel  progress  in  a 
rapidly  developing  field.  Each  denomination 
ought  to  arrange  training  conferences,  summer 
schools  for  paid  workers  and  professional  cor¬ 
respondence  study  courses.  Financial  pro¬ 
vision  must  be  made  for  this  need. 

8.  The  special  needs  of  young  people  must  be 
met. 

Because  of  the  tremendously  significant  period 
of  youth  special  leadership  is  needed  for  young 
peoples’  work.  During  the  ’teen  years  habits 
of  Christian  life  and  service  are  formed  or 
largely  made  impossible.  No  provision  for 
religious  education  is  complete  without  atten¬ 
tion  to  the  groups  of  young  people. 

9.  A  service  of  research  and  experimentation 
must  be  maintained  to  secure  educational 
advance. 

Beyond  present  attainment  and  understanding 
must  go  the  discoverers  and  pioneers.  Pro¬ 
gressive  denominational  leadership  will  develop 
departments  of  religious  education  in  colleges 
and  universities  and  provide  experiment  sta¬ 
tions.  Scientific  surveys  and  wide  investiga¬ 
tions  are  needed  for  uncovering  needs  and 
weaknesses,  improving  methods  and  clarifying 
principles.  A  sufficient  budget  provision  must 
be  made  for  this  important  work. 


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COMPARATIVE  SUPERVISION 

IN 

PUBLIC  AND  SUNDAY  SCHOOLS 


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RELIGIOUS  EDUCATION 


State-wide  Promotion,  Training  and 

Supervision 

Continuance  and  Extension  of  Present  Service 


State 

Men  and  Women 

Expended, 

1919 

Needed  for  1920 

Needed 

for 

Five 

Years 

Present 

Force 

Needed, 

1920 

Needed, 

1920-24 

For 

Salaries 

and 

Travel 

For 

Equipment 

and 

Promotion 

Total 

Alabama . 

11 

24 

33 

$19,900 

$46,000 

$9,125 

$55,125 

$336,569 

Arizona . 

2 

7 

9 

5,000 

11,700 

2,475 

14,175 

86,536 

Arkansas . 

6 

11 

17 

8,000 

19,800 

4,980 

24,780 

151,281 

California  (N.) . 

2 

10 

15 

5,500 

20,700 

4,185 

24,885 

151,922 

California  (S.) . 

4 

10 

15 

7,100 

21,200 

4,682 

25,882 

158,009 

Colorado . 

6 

9 

13 

9,500 

17,620 

3,821 

21,441 

130,896 

Connecticut . 

6 

9 

15 

12,834 

16,800 

6,699 

23,499 

143,456 

Delaware . 

2 

5 

7 

3,000 

7,800 

2,070 

9,870 

60,254 

District  of  Columbia. 

.  . 

3 

5 

600 

5,200 

4,040 

9,240 

56,409 

Florida . 

2 

3 

7 

5,000 

5,900 

3,445 

9,345 

57,045 

Georgia . 

9 

11 

15 

27,000 

20,900 

7,135 

28,035 

171,151 

Idaho  (S.) . 

2 

6 

9 

3,000 

8,300 

1,570 

9,870 

60,254 

Illinois . 

6 

18 

30 

15,939 

36,000 

9,360 

45,360 

276,924 

Indiana . 

6 

14 

18 

11,987 

28,100 

7,075 

35,175 

214,743 

Iowa . 

6 

13 

17 

12,000 

25,500 

6,089 

31,589 

192,847 

Kansas . 

7 

15 

21 

15,500 

27,900 

7,590 

35,490 

216,766 

Kentucky . 

6 

12 

17 

9,964 

23,740 

6,542 

30,282 

184,873 

Louisiana . 

5 

11 

16 

12,000 

17,900 

4,990 

22,890 

139,741 

Maine . 

4 

10 

15 

6,014 

19,500 

3,968 

23,468 

143,268 

Maryland . 

4 

12 

16 

8,838 

23,800 

6,965 

30,765 

187,819 

Massachusetts . 

8 

14 

20 

13,000 

28,450 

9,928 

38,378 

234,294 

Michigan . 

6 

15 

21 

9,285 

30,500 

7,353 

37,853 

231,292 

Minnesota . 

7 

13 

18 

14,079 

26,500 

6,785 

33,285 

203,204 

Mississippi . 

6 

10 

14 

11,329 

16,500 

3,975 

20,475 

124,998 

Missouri . 

6 

19 

27 

22,000 

40,300 

10,310 

50,610 

308,977 

Montana . 

.  . 

7 

10 

300 

15,500 

5,080 

20,580 

125,640 

Nebraska . 

3 

7 

10 

9,772 

12,750 

3,787 

16,537 

100,954 

Nevada . 

150 

New  Hampshire . 

2 

6 

10 

4,860 

13,200 

4,230 

17,430 

106,490 

New  Jersey . 

8 

12 

17 

11,280 

25,000 

7,340 

32,340 

197,437 

New  Mexico . 

600 

New  York . 

12 

26 

35 

21,744 

46,000 

9,650 

55,650 

339,745 

North  Carolina . 

1 

7 

10 

3,150 

14,200 

6,590 

20,790 

126,921 

North  Dakota . 

3 

7 

10 

6,800 

12,300 

3,870 

16,170 

98,776 

Ohio . 

11 

20 

29 

22,701 

55,170 

11,421 

66,591 

406,543 

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19 


State-wide  Promotion,  Training  and  Supervision 

Continuance  and  Extension  of  Present  Service 

(^Continued) 


State 

Men  and  Women 

Expended, 

1919 

Needed  for  1920 

Needed 

for 

Five 

Years 

Present 

Force 

Needed, 

1920 

Needed, 

1920-24 

For 

Salaries 

and 

Travel 

For 

Equipment 

and 

Promotion 

Total 

Oklahoma . 

3 

9 

13 

$10,000 

$20,600 

$5,020 

$25,620 

$156,412 

Oregon . 

3 

8 

12 

4,500 

15,500 

4,345 

19,845 

121,130 

Pennsylvania . 

16 

29 

40 

40,000 

63,000 

19,425 

82,425 

493,207 

Rhode  Island . 

3 

5 

7 

4,700 

6,250 

1,940 

8,190 

49,995 

South  Carolina . 

6 

11 

15 

14,000 

21,500 

5,695 

27,195 

166,023 

South  Dakota . 

4 

8 

12 

5,111 

15,150 

4,118 

19,268 

117,627 

Tennessee . 

3 

4 

8 

5,000 

7,700 

3,425 

11,025 

67,302 

Texas . 

1 

9 

15 

3,000 

15,500 

6,025 

21,525 

131,406 

Utah . 

600 

Vermont . 

1 

4 

7 

754 

6,000 

2,033 

8,033 

49,037 

Virginia . 

1 

4 

7 

3,560 

7,200 

2,775 

9,975 

60,893 

Washington  (W.)  .... 

2 

8 

11 

4,500 

15,300 

5,805 

21,105 

128,842 

Washington  (E.) . 

4 

10 

14 

8,000 

19,400 

6,220 

25,620 

156,412 

West  Virginia . 

14 

18 

24 

10,443 

38,200 

10,835 

49,035 

299,358 

Wisconsin . 

4 

11 

14 

14,000 

21,800 

7,495 

29,295 

178,844 

Wvoming . 

300 

Alaska  . 

100 

Hawaii . 

300 

West  Indies . 

1 

1,000 

Total . 

233 

514 

740 

$479,594 

$1,013,830 

$282,281 

$1,296,011 

$7,902,522 

Fields  left  blank  are  to  be  cared  for  by  denominational  and  international  service. 


These  estimates  have  been  prepared  by  the  American  Religious  Education  Division  in  the 
light  of  facts  as  secured  from  state  and  International  Sunday  School  association  officers. 

By  “1919"  is  meant  the  last  completed  state  year;  and  by  “1920"  is  meant  the  state’s  first 
year  of  work  on  the  new  scale  of  service. 

Summary  for  National  and  State  Cooperation 


Field 

1919 

1920 

Five  Years 

Men 

Money 

Men 

Money 

Men 

Money 

The  United  States  as  a  whole . 

24 

$110,000 

90 

$596,500 

129 

$3,641,670 

The  States  Separately  Organized . 

233 

479,594 

514 

1,296,011 

740 

7,902,522 

Total . 

257 

$589,594 

604 

$1,892,511 

869 

$11,544,192 

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The  Nation^s  Light:  RELIGIOUS  EDUCATION 


SPECIAL  PROMOTION  NEEDS 

N  ANALYSIS  of  promotion  needs  dis¬ 
closes  the  following: 

Teacher  Training 
Daily  Vacation  Bible  Schools 
Week  Day  Instruction 
Training  Schools 
Missionary  Education 
Social  Training 

Sunday  Schools  for  New  Americans 
Staff  Training 
Promotion 
Publicity 
Research 

In  addition  to  the  expense  of  maintaining  head¬ 
quarters  offices,  general  officers,  field  workers, 
equipment  and  extension  service  and  Special 
Young  People’s  work,  denominational  boards 
must  provide  for  special  promotion  needs. 
These  needs  are  indicated  in  the  sample  list 
suggested  herewith. 

Each  board  must  determine  its  own  needs  and 
apportion  its  finances  accordingly.  But  for  the 
most  part  each  board  will  feel  the  need  of  a 
direct  service  of  its  own  or  of  cooperating  in  a 
joint  service  for  each  of  the  causes  mentioned. 

STAFF  DISTRIBUTION 

HEN  we  analyze  the  staff  of  workers, 
the  forces  are  seen  to  include:  General 
Workers — (1)  General  Secretary;  (2)  Educa¬ 
tion  Secretary;  (3)  Sunday  School  Editors; 
(4)  Grade  Specialists;  (5)  Teacher  Training; 
(6)  Missionary  Education;  (7)  Daily  Vacation 


Bible  Schools;  (8)  Week  Day  Religious  Instruc¬ 
tion;  (9)  Social  Service  Education;  (10)  Train¬ 
ing  Schools;  (11)  Sunday  School  Work  for  New 
Americans;  (12)  Negro  Sunday  School  Workers; 
(13)  Extension  Workers;  (14)  Rural;  (15) 
Evangelism;  (16)  Sunday  School  Architecture; 
(17)  Parent  Training;  (18)  Survey  Workers; 
(19)  Music  (including  Worship,  Religious  Art, 
Pageantry);  (20)  Librarian;  (21)  Correspond¬ 
ence  Study  and  Staff  Training;  (22)  Research; 
(23)  Stenographers.  Field  Workers — (24)  State 
and  District  Leaders;  (25)  City  Leaders;  (26) 
Grade  Specialists;  (27)  Extension;  (28)  School 
Survey  Workers;  (29)  Business  Branch  Ad¬ 
visors;  (30)  Clerks  and  Stenographers;  (31) 
Part-time  Workers.  Young  People’s  Workers — 
(32)  General  Officers;  (33)  Field  Workers. 

From  the  experience  of  many  denominational 
boards  the  accompanying  list  of  workers  has 
been  gathered.  No  board  employs  all  these 
workers  but  every  board  is  expanding  its  work 
and  pushing  out  into  new  forms  of  service. 
Every  progressive  board  has  plans  for  the  en¬ 
largement  of  its  work  of  religious  education  be¬ 
yond  its  present  operations.  Boards  with  small 
income  and  rudimentary  organization  must  first 
give  attention  to  the  headquarters  office  and  se¬ 
cure  a  general  and  specialized  leadership.  With 
the  increase  of  funds  and  workers  boards  must 
give  attention  to  their  fixed  force  in  order  to 
carry  help  to  local  churches  more  directly.  In 
many  instances  boards  must  find  a  basis  of  field 
cooperation  to  give  their  people  the  various 
help  they  need  in  their  task  of  religious  educa¬ 
tion. 


RELIGIOUS  EDUCATION 


21 


AMERICAN  RELIGIOUS 
EDUCATION  DIVISION 

Budget  Statement  for 

DENOMINATIONAL  SUNDAY  SCHOOLS  ONLY 


Table  I — By  Denominations 


Constituency 

Personnel  Needed 
Religious 
Educational  Staff 

Financial  Budget* 

Denomination 

Number 

of 

Churches 

Number  of 
Church 
Members 

Sunday 

School 

Enrolment 

1920 

5 

Years 

1920 

5 

Years 

ADVENT 

Advent  Christian  Church . 

535 

30,597 

24,141 

2 

4 

32,000 

312,000 

BAPTIST 

Northern  Baptist  Convention . 

8,159 

1,232,135 

1,141,853 

150 

220 

250,000 

1,500,000 

Seventh  Day  Baptist . 

68 

7,980 

5,882 

1 

3 

1,500 

10,000 

BRETHREN 

Church  of  the  Brethren . 

999 

105,102 

124,315 

6 

8 

9,000 

55,000 

CHRISTIAN 

Christian  Church . 

1,265 

118,737 

103,246 

5 

6 

8,000 

50,000 

CONGREGATIONAL 

Congregational  Churches . 

5,867 

791,274 

732,529 

70 

100 

125,000 

750,000 

DISCIPLES 

Disciples  of  Christ . 

8,408 

1,226,028 

1,027,475 

100 

150 

200,000 

1,250,000 

EVANGELICAL 

Evangelical  Synod  of  N.  A . 

1,336 

339,853 

159,611 

12 

17 

17,500 

100,000 

FRIENDS 

Society  of  Friends  (Orthodox) . 

809 

92,379 

72,468 

3 

5 

7,500 

45,000 

METHODIST 

Methodist  Episcopal  Church . 

29,342 

3,717,785 

4,264,113 

400 

600 

650,000 

4,000,000 

Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South  . . 

19,220 

2,114,479 

1,840,736 

120 

175 

200,000 

1,250,000 

Methodist  Protestant  Church . 

2,473 

186,908 

198,696 

11 

15 

17,500 

100,000 

MORAVIAN 

Moravian  Church . 

110 

26,373 

16,448 

1 

2 

1,500 

10,000 

PRESBYTERIAN 

Presbyterian  Church  in  the  U.  S.A. 

9,660 

1,611,251 

1,522,438 

100 

150 

175,000 

1,000,000 

Presbyterian  Church  in  the  U.  S., 
South . 

3,368 

357,769 

345,477 

50 

65 

75,000 

450,000 

United  Presbyterian  Church . 

991 

160,726 

171,232 

12 

17 

20,000 

125,000 

REFORMED 

Reformed  Church  in  America . 

775 

144,929 

135,630 

9 

13 

15,000 

100,000 

Reformed  Church  in  the  U.  S . 

1,761 

344,374 

333,639 

22 

32 

35,000 

215,000 

UNITED  BRETHREN 

Church  of  The  United  Brethren  in 
Christ . 

3,487 

348,828 

443,061 

26 

40 

40,000 

250,000 

UNITED  EVANGELICAL 

United  Evangelical  Church . 

957 

89,774 

143,361 

7 

11 

12,000 

75,000 

TOTAL . 

99,590 

13,047,281 

12,806,351 

1,107 

1,633 

31,861,500 

311,347,000 

•Included  in  total  of  Table  II. 


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RELIGIOUS  EDUCATION 


AMERICAN  RELIGIOUS 
EDUCATION  DIVISION 

General  Budget 

DENOMINATIONAL  SUNDAY  SCHOOL 

Table  II — By  Denominations 


Denomination 

Headquarters 

Expenses 

Field  Workers 

Equipment 

1920 

5  Years 

1920 

5  Years 

1920 

5  Years 

ADVENT 

Advent  Christian  Church . 

3400 

32,400 

3600 

33,600 

3200 

31,200 

1 

BAPTIST 

Northern  Baptist  Convention.  . . 

50,000 

300,000 

75,000 

450,000 

25,000 

150,000 

2 

Seventh  Day  Baptist . 

300 

2,000 

450 

3,000 

150 

1,000 

3 

BRETHREN 

Church  or  the  Brethren . 

1,800 

11,000 

2,700 

16,500 

900 

5,500 

4 

CHRISTIAN 

Christian  Church . 

1,600 

10,000 

2,400 

15,000 

800 

5,000 

5 

CONGREGATIONAL 
Congregational  Churches . 

25,000 

150,000 

37,500 

225,000 

12,500 

75,000 

6 

DISCIPLES 

Disciples  or  Christ . 

40,000 

250,000 

60,000 

375,000 

20,000 

125,000 

7 

EVANGELICAL 

Evangelical  Synod  of  N.  A . 

3,500 

20,000 

5,250 

30,000 

1,750 

10,000 

8 

FRIENDS 

Society  of  Friends  (Orthodox)..  . 

1,500 

9,000 

2,250 

13,500 

750 

4,500 

9 

METHODIST 

Methodist  Episcopal  Church . 

130,000 

800,000 

195,000 

1,200,000 

65,000 

400,000 

10 

Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
South . 

40,000 

250,000 

60,000 

375,000 

20,000 

125,000 

11 

Methodist  Protestant  Church..  . 

3,500 

20,000 

5,250 

30,000 

1,750 

10,000 

12 

MORAVIAN 

Moravian  Church . 

300 

2,000 

450 

3,000 

150 

1,000 

13 

PRESBYTERIAN 

Presbyterian  Church  in  the 
U.  S.  A . 

35,000 

200,000 

52,500 

300,000 

17,500 

100,000 

14 

Presbyterian  Church  in  the 
U.  S.,  South . 

15,000 

90,000 

22,500 

135,000 

7,500 

45,000 

15 

United  Presbyterian  Church.  .  . . 

4,000 

25,000 

6,000 

37,500 

2,000 

12,500 

16 

REFORMED 

Reformed  Church  in  America.  . . . 

3,000 

20,000 

4,500 

30,000 

1,500 

10,000 

17 

Reformed  Church  in  the  U.  S.  . .  . 

7,000 

43,000 

10,500 

64,500 

3,500 

21,500 

18 

UNITED  BRETHREN 

Church  of  the  United  Brethren 
IN  Christ . 

8,000 

50,000 

12,000 

75,000 

4,000 

25,000 

19 

UNITED  EVANGELICAL 

United  Evangelical  Church . 

2,400 

15,000 

3,600 

22,500 

1,200 

7,500 

20 

TOTAL . 

3372,300 

32,269,400 

3558,450 

33,404,100 

3185,150 

31,134,700 

21 

RELIGIOUS  EDUCATION 


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Itatement  for 

VND  YOUNG  PEOPLE’S  WORK 

nd  Types  of  Work 


Extension 

Special 

Promotion 

1920 

5  Years 

1920 

5  Years 

’1 

3400 

32,400 

3400 

32,400 

12 

50,000 

300,000 

50,000 

300,000 

3 

300 

2,000 

300 

2,000 

4 

1,800 

11,000 

1,800 

11,000 

’5 

1,600 

10,000 

1,600 

10,000 

6 

25,000 

150,000 

25,000 

150,000 

7 

40,000 

250,000 

40,000 

250,000 

8 

3,500 

20,000 

3,500 

20,000 

9 

1,500 

9,000 

1,500 

9,000 

0 

130,000 

800,000 

130,000 

800,000 

1 

40,000 

250,000 

40,000 

250,000 

2 

3,500 

20,000 

3,500 

20,000 

3 

300 

2,000 

300 

2,000 

4 

35,000 

200,000 

35,000 

200,000 

5 

15,000 

90,000 

15,000 

90,000 

6 

4,000 

25,000 

4,000 

25,000 

i7 

3,000 

20,000 

3,000 

20,000 

,8 

7,000 

43,000 

7,000 

43,000 

9 

8,000 

50,000 

8,000 

50,000 

0 

2,400 

15,000 

2,400 

15,000 

1 

3372,300 

32,269,400 

3372,300 

32,269,400 

Young  People 

1920 

5  Years 

335,000 

3200,000 

3,000 

100,000 

30,000 

20,000 

625,000 

175,000 

20,000 

125,000 

6,000 

10,000 

40,000 

600,000 

3204,000 

31,785,000 

Total 


1920 


32,000 

250,000 

1,500 

9,000 

8,000 

125,000 

235,000 

17.500 

10.500 
750,000 

230,000 

17.500 

1,500 

195,000 

75,000 

20,000 

15,000 

41,000 

50,000 

12,000 


32,065,500 


5  Years 


312,000 

1,500,000 

10,000 

55,000 

50,000 

750,000 

1,450,000 

100,000 

65,000 

4,625,000 

1,425,000 

100,000 

10,000 

1,125,000 

450,000 

125,000 

100,000 

255,000 

850,000 

75,000 

313,132,000 


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The  Nation^ s  Light:  RELIGIOUS  EDUCATION 


Cooperation  in  Religious  Education 


Religious  education  if  it  is  to  be  pro¬ 
vided  through  local  church  effort  for  all 
^  America  must  be  organized  and  pro¬ 
moted  by  cities,  counties  and  states  as  a  whole 
as  well  as  separately  by  each  denomination. 

The  surveys  show  the  needs  of  the  field.  Every 
test  reveals  the  lack  of  sound  Bible  education. 

Taking  as  a  basis  the  state  and  county  Sunday- 
school  association,  with  their  years  of  experi¬ 
ence  and  field  development;  and  raising  their 
personnel  and  equipment  to  the  point  of  func¬ 
tioning  efficiency  for  every  field,  we  can  in  five 
years  create  a  force  which,  cooperating  with  the 
denominations,  will  vitalize  teaching  and  train¬ 
ing  in  every  church  and  neighborhood  from 
California  to  Maine. 

Detailed  plans  for  this  advance  are  ready.  For 
every  state-wide  organization  there  will  ulti¬ 
mately  be  needed: 

1.  A  standard  official  force,  including  a  general 
secretary;  a  superintendent  of  religious  educa¬ 
tion;  divisional  specialists  for  work  with  chil¬ 
dren,  youth,  adults  and  general  officers;  an 


office  secretary  and  additional  specialists  and 
assistants  as  each  field  may  need. 

2.  Educational  field  representatives  for  groups 
of  counties. 

3.  A  working  organization  for  each  city  and 
county  unit,  with  its  own  leadership  and  local 
budget  locally  raised. 

4.  Adequate  headquarters  space  with  equip-’ 
ment  for  efficient  office  service. 

5.  A  modern  program  of  community  training 
for  religious  teachers  and  school  leaders. 

The  amount  of  this  budget  that  can  be  realized 
in  these  five  years,  if  the  churches  furnish  the 
money,  is  represented  in  the  state  budgets 
which  follow.  It  is  assumed  that  needs  will 
increase  by  one-tenth  each  year.  If  the  existing 
state  Sunday  school  organizations  are  not 
utilized  costs  will  be  higher  and  results  slower. 

Through  negotiations  which  near  completion 
as  this  budget  is  framed,  provision  is  made  for 
placing  all  the  activities  and  leadership  forces 
of  the  state  and  international  associations  under 
joint  territorial  and  denominational  control. 


ANNUAL  PER  CAPITA  EXPENDITURES 
FOR  CERTAIN  ITEMS  IN 
THE  CHURCHES  OF  A  TYPICAL  CITY 


Sunday  Janitors 
Schools 


$1.48 

Music 


MORE  THAN  TWICE  AS  MUCH  FOR  THE  JANITOR  AS  FOR  THE  SUNDAY  SCHOOL. 

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